After graduating from the National Autonomous Film School in Mexico, Ripstein started working as an assistant director for Luis Buñuel. For his first feature film <Tiempo de morir> (1966), he worked with Gabriel García Márquez, one of the greatest writers in Central and South Americas. Later on, he founded the Mexican Independent Film Group along with Felipe Cazals and Rafael Castanedo and insisted on his experimental independent production up to the early 1970’s. Through a career spanning 30 films, including <El castillo de la pureza> (1973), <Principio y fin> (1993) and <Profundo carmesí> (1996), he became widely known on the global film festival scene famous for films in which relationships transcend taboos and convention.